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United Kingdom Launches Projects to Study Ocean Acidification

Image: NOAA Ocean Explorer, Flickr The Evil Twin of Global Warming Ocean acidification naturally results from elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere. The oceans absorb CO2, which becomes carbonic acid as it dissolves into the sea water. Ocean acidification picked up the moniker ...
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Friday,25 June, 2010  |  Hits: 57

"Emerging Ghana" Wins Open Source House Competition for Local, Modular, and Efficient Design

Last year, Enviu, known for the sustainable dance floor and club, launched the Open Source House project, a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of their first competition, in which 3100 architects participated, was to design an affordable, flexible and sustainable house for people living in poor housing conditions in Ghana. ...
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Polluting Two-Stroke "Mototaxi" Goes Solar

Photo of solar-powered mototaxi by Universidad Nactional in Lima. What's worse about the two-stroke engines still common workhorses in motors of all kinds - the pollution or the noise? In Lima, Peru, plagued by air pollution, it's probably the former. An ingenious professor at the University of San Marcos has designed a solar panel retrofit of the two-stroke "mototaxis" that fill the streets of the city which can run on pedal-power or a battery hooked to the solar panels.... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Security Is Next Multi-Billion Dollar Boom for Smart Grid

Photo via [jeremy] The security of the smart grid, from privacy and ownership of personal information among consumers to hackers' ability to fell the entire grid in one sweep of malicious code, has been a hotly debated topic since the smart grid's earliest days. So it is no surprise to hear that security measures that protect the grid is set to be a multi-billion-dollar industry in the very near future. According to a new report by Pike Research, 15% of all smart grid investments over the next few years will be for security, representing about $21 billion by 2015... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Hydropower Without Dams: Alaskan Village Powered Entirely by New Hydrokinetic River Turbine

photo: Business Wire A couple weeks back when writing about whether hydropower really should be considered a clean power source, there were a couple varieties that were left out. Thanks to the remote town of Eagle, Alaska we can highlight one of them. It's there that Alaska Power & Telephone has installed a new hydroki... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Light Bulbs To Get Nutrition-Style Labels Next Year

Image via FTC Late last year we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission proposed a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs and other lighting technology more comparable among consumers. Well word has just hit that the new system has been approved and we'll soon see ... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Smart Computer That Learns from Videos Can Make Traffic More Efficient

Image credit D. Küttel / ETH Zurich; via PhysOrg ETH researchers Daniel Küttel and Michael Breitenstein teamed up with professors Luc Van Gool and Vittorio Ferrari from the Institute of Image Processing to create a new software program that can learn from watching moving objects, analyzing things like street scenes and figuring out patterns and habits of things like moving vehicles. The new technology allows the computer to recognize things like the movements of normal traffic flow and any changes in that "normal" situation. It may have a big use in analyzing traffic a... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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Sprawling US Cities Heating Twice as Fast as Dense Ones

photo: Matt Lemmon via flickr It may not offer relief from the sweat dripping down your forehead in the midst of a heatwave as you walk down the street, but you can take comfort that it's not all in your head. Heatwaves are indeed getting more pronounced. As Our Amazing Planet reports, sprawling cities have seen the ...
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Pacific Garbage Patch Plastic to be Recycled Into Vacuum Cleaners (Video)

Images via Vac from the Sea project Electrolux is known for pushing the envelope on design, including sustainable design. And their latest project has our full attention. Pointing out that there isn't enough recycled plastic on land to supply demand, Electrolux is backing a project that would pull plastics from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and recycle it into appliances like vacuum cleaners. The project would simultaneously create (... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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China's Coast Under Siege By Massive Algae Slick

Soldiers struggle to clean the Qingdao coast during a similar algae bloom in 2008. Image credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Qingdao, China, is famous for its temperate sea air and "Tsingtao" beer but, during the summer, the gentle coast becomes a fertile bed for massive, smelly, algae blooms. The last major bloom occurred in 2008 and threatened the sailing competitions of the Beijing Olympics. This year, another bloom as blossomed—and has grown by 50 percent in less than a week.... Read the full story on TreeHugger read full article ...
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